Sentence examples for detained human from inspiring English sources
China has has put on trial a number of detained human rights activists, handing down a suspended three-year sentence to one activist after he reportedly confessed to colluding to subvert the state.
The European Parliament has urged Saudi Arabia to release all detained human rights defenders in the country.
In January, the European Union issued a rare statement expressing concern about Yang and several other detained human rights lawyers: "If verified, this mistreatment would amount to torture".
Page A4 AFGHAN WOMEN DETAINED Human Rights Watch called for the government of Afghanistan to release about 400 women and girls imprisoned for so-called moral crimes, often based on the testimony of their own abusers.
The Americans raised the cases of more detained human rights activists, she indicated, than the eight identified by name at the news conference.
The peace prize has been awarded three times to detained human rights and democracy activists — the Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov; Myanmar's opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; and the Polish trade unionist Lech Walesa.
A similar effort to detain human rights abusers exists in Britain and Belgium.
Since 9/11, criminals have been successfully prosecuted in our civilian courts, yet we continue to detain human beings outside of our borders, outside of our view and outside of our Constitution.
The in vitro studies to date show that a functional reservoir may exist, created by detaining human sperm in the tubal isthmus (Pacey et al., 1995b).
And China's government, fearing that the uprisings will spread east, has begun detaining human-rights defenders, and has banned foreign journalists from filming public places.
A11 China Detains Rights Advocate The Chinese police have detained a human rights advocate who represented farmers in lawsuits against the government, expanding a crackdown on writers, intellectuals, lawyers and journalists who challenge the authorities there.
